Tree Quotes

God writes the Gospel not

in the Bible alone, but

also on trees, and in the

flowers and clouds and stars.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

The vegetable life does not content

itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed,

but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that,

if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves,

that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity;

that, at least one may replace the parent.

And I remember going to the record studio

and there was a park across the street

and I'd see all the children playing and I would cry because

it would make me sad that I would have to work instead.

A man watches his pear tree day after day,

impatient for the ripening of the fruit.

Let him attempt to force the process,

and he may spoil both fruit and tree.

But let him patiently wait,

and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap.

I looked up my family tree and found

three dogs using it.

I looked up my family tree and found out

I was the sap.

A people without the knowledge of their past history,

origin and culture is like a tree without roots.

Someone’s sitting in the shade today

because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls

Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.

We will all, someday, experience death, and become obsolete as a dead leaf falling from a tree, crushed by passersby to ashes underlying the earth.

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces,

I would still plant my apple tree.

Someone is sitting in the

shade today because someone

planted a tree a long time ago.

A person should not be too honest.

Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.

We are born believing.

A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and

I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow.

The shadow is what we think of it;

the tree is the real thing.

Love is like flower

Friendship is like a

sheltering tree.

My first day in Chicago,

September 4 1983,

I set foot in this city,

and just walking down the street,

it was like roots,

like the motherland.

I knew I belonged here.

Great things are done when men and mountains meet;

this is not done by jostling in the street.